[rds-devel] [PATCH v3 net-next 3/3] rds: Extend RDS API for IPv6 support

[Santosh Shilimkar]

On 7/13/2018 4:27 PM, David Miller wrote:
> From: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar at oracle.com>
> Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2018 15:00:59 -0700
> 
>> Ofcourse any application built using upstream header and
>> using SO_RDS_TRANSPORT will break but since this particular
>> option was added for special case(application wants to
>> upfront select transport instead letting bind figure it out),
>> our hope its not used by other application(s).
> 
> We can't let people have different UAPIs from upstream on a whim like
> this then change the already released upstream UAPI to match.
> 
> Please take this into consideration when making changes in the future.
>
Will not be repeated in future.

> I'm not allowing this upstream UAPI break, sorry.
> 
Ok Dave !!

Regards,
Santosh